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regional funds. as a focus of the neighborhood transportation plan i would like to request that the study examine ways to mitigate the heavy traffic flows on broadway between van ness and central corridor downtown. this quarter has born a very high volume of vehicle trips since the 50s when the broadway connector was between lombardy and the interstate 405. at this time after embarcadero became the blvd, i this i we need to rebalance the flows and economic plan. in addition to the safety and economy measure along broadway, the left turn capacity at van ness onto broadway and the development of alternative routines or modes to accommodate travel demand. i
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also hope there will be coordination with golden gate transit and adding additional service. my staff and i are very interested in seeing this moving forward to test some pilots of these ideas. i know supervisor ferrel has interest in looking also at some of the impacts of what we are talking about on lombardy street and i have hope that my office can work with the ta staff to get this moving forward. >> you have inspired me with your comments about going to oakland earlier. i think going forward my suggestion let's recess every ta meeting to see steven curry as much as possible. i think a lot of men and women would appreciate that. >> thank you for your comments. >> can we go on to public comment? any member of the public would like to comment on
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what we should be doing as a body? >> avalos you said there was going to be a workshop at the ta headquarters at 1455 market 22nd floor regarding the future plans for transit in the city. like i said earlier, i happen to be on the advisory committee for this item. now, one thing i brought up at the last subcommittee meeting is you have to remember whats in prop b, what has been completed in prop b, what has not completed
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in prop b and what is brought over into prop k, what was added into prop k and figure out what projects will be done under prop k and like i said earlier, you will have to go before the voters again to extend prop k to get more funding for any of these projects. so before you plan 30 years in the future, i suggest you look on what can be done now and fix the system now before anything else goes wrong. thank you very much. >> thank you. okay, if there is no other member of the public who would like to comment we'll close public comment. >> next item? >> the clerk: item 13 public comment. >> is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> on to our next item.
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>> item 14. adjournment. >> we are adjourned. thank you. okay. we are ready to begin. sorry about that viewers. a little bit technical difficulties. but we are on. welcome, everyone to the mayor's disability council
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monthly meeting. council main marry -- good afternoon, welcome to the mayor's disability council. city hall is accessible to person using wheelchairs and other mobility devices. wheelchair access is available at the grove and mccallster street. the entrance is temporarily interrupted due to wheelchair lift repairs. we appreciate your patience during this time. assistive listening devices are available and our meeting is open captioned and
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sign language interpreted. our agendas are also available in large print and braille. please ask staff for any additional assistance. to prevent electronic interference with this room's sound system and to red -- respect everyone's abil off all mobile cell phones and pda or turn to vibrate mode. we welcome the public comment. you may complete a speakers card in front of the room or call our bridge line at4155 554-9632. the staff person will handle
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your speaking at the appropriate time. our next regular meeting will be on june 21, 2013 from 1:00-4:00 in room 400 at san francisco city hall. please call our mayor's disability office for any further information or to request accommodations at4155 554-6789 voice. or4155 554-6799 t t y. a reminder to all of our guest today to speak slowly into the microphone to assist our captioner and interpreter. >> thank you. now we'll have
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roll call from staff joanna. >> wendy james? absent. cochair adele wilson? here. council member sarah burr get, council member, harry wong. >> reading and approval of the agenda. >> item one introduction of roll call. item 2 action item. reading and approving of the agenda. no. 3, public comment. each speaker is limited to 3 minutes. >> item 4, information item report from the chair. no. 5,
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information item report from the director of the mayor's office and disability. >> item 6, information item. proposition c. the affordable housing. the impact on affordable and accessible house ing in san francisco. at 2:10 the council will take a break. no. 7, improvement plan. no. 8 information item, report from disaster preparedness committee. >> no. 9, public comment. no. 10 information item. >> no. 11 announcements, no. 12, adjournment. >> is there a motion to approve the agenda ? >> so moved. >> all those in favor, say aye?
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>> okay. thank you. >> let's go to team 3. public comment on today's agenda but within the jurisdiction of the mod. each speaker is limited 3 minutes. >> we have jerry grace. hi, everybody. my name is jerry grace. i live across the bay. i'm in alameda county and i
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travel everywhere. last time i was here last time i wanted to speak last time. our dc mayor office did not call me last time because we was really short time ran out of time. we never got to the last number. any -- my advice is take out no. 9. we don't need no. 9 anymore. keep no. 3, but you have 2 times to be wasting time. that's my advice. please take it. on the other hand, a lot of stuff is going on and i can't explain it, but half of --
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hard to explain it. but arc have a dance tonight and some other stuff going on. san francisco people have last friday 3:30-4. maybe we will cancel. not sure about it. about what do you talk about and see what will happen. in june 4 is come up for the dinner. last thing i want to say, the summer games coming up at end of june. friday, saturday and sunday is great for that and people -- the
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deadline is may 17, coming around the corner. if you want to sign up, do it now and bring the money in now. thank you very much. have a nice day. have a good trip. i will be back for no. 7. >> thank you very much. neale? >> good afternoon commissioners, my name is neale plattel planning director by coalition. today i'm very excited to announce a special event. the san francisco bicycle coalition with mayor's office of disability, the office of adults in aging services and borp, which is bay area outreach and recreation program. we'll be hosting an
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adaptive cycling event is for people with physical disabilities are able to ride custom made bicycles. some of these bicycles are hand powered, some have a tandem what's called pilot trained volunteer or staff pulling the position and there are people providing recreational opportunities for people with disabilities. very excited to bring them to san francisco to give people who live in san francisco the opportunity to experience something that perhaps they never have before. so the event is on june 9th, on the sunday streets routes in the dog patch. i apologize, i do not have a printed flyer with me today. we are finalizing the content. it should be ready next week and i will make sure i send over electronic copies and printed
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to copies to you all of if you can spread the news to all of your contacts, we want to make sure as many people come. this bicycle coalition we'll be providing volunteer power to make sure everything runs smoothly. mta is a very strong partner. last week was bike to workday. it was great to have carla and perhaps some of you participated as well. it was the biggest bike to workday we had. more than two-thirds of traffic on market street was bicycles and to us more people bicycling means more spots for parking and more spots on the bus. thank you carla for joining us. i know that we are
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all working together safer streets. i wanted to update you on recent coming events. thank you very much. >> thank you. is there anymore public comment? okay. step up to the mic. >> any bridge line? >> i filled out a speaker card. my name is jackie bryceon. i was commended for my tireless and unending work. that's when
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i was able to walk and i had not been crippled into walker because of non-accommodation. i have been fighting diligently to the best of my ability which carl can tell you. i'm here today because i assigned myself a homework assignment to find out if san francisco passed ada reasonable accommodation policy. thanks to heather who did homework as directed by joanna and i discovered, drum role, that ordinance no. the file no. 204 was signed into law on april 30, 2010. it's already in the computer. you can get your own complete file from the clerks office. that's what i'm going to talk about in
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item 9. our second public speaking. and oakland should take out a page out of our playbook. i went to the human rights commission and spoke and that particular agenda minutes of april 25, of april 13. my comments was to say the door was working. the last couple of times i went it refused to obey me. i hate that. the chair asked us to tell her if there was a problem to tell her. she contacted the mayor's disability office and the ordinance is 90-10 and it concerned me that the hrc and mayor's office of disability
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didn't know about it. it's rather short and my concern was that there was to be publicity and that didn't happen. i would suggest and i can speak to carla later and joanna about this coming to compliance with the compliance. the other thing that concerns me seriously is what to do if you need to have reasonable accommodations and you didn't get it. i was trying to get reasonable accommodations august of 2010 and i didn't know this had been passed and i suffered at the hands of the evil landlord. thank you. i will see you on item 7 as well. >> thank you very much. >> if you can, when you fill out your speaker card, i didn't see your item, that's why i didn't call it. it doesn't have
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3 on here. i'm sorry. thank you very much. is there anymore public comment? okay. thank you very much. seeing there is no more public comment. the report from the chair, good afternoon, everyone. i am chair wilson and i would like to mention a couple of things in my report. last month director carla johnson talked about the sro technical assistance manual that was developed to help landlords and installing grab bars in the restroom in the safest way possible. the council members have had an opportunity to look at the manual closely and our last executive meeting and we finally support the mayor's office disability efforts on this important project. i also want to remind you that we
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would like to make public comment, but when we have multiple people wish to go speak on each team we reserve the right to limit public comment time to one or two minutes so that everyone has a chance to talk. okay. sorry, you guys. i'm very new at this. you guys are going to have to get used to me. in my report. i'm still on the chairs report. i would just like to mention in the beginning some events that is going to happen and i will mention them at the end real fast. one day, next month is mental health month. if i don't
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know. we are going to be bumping here. please come to our meeting and tell others to come to our meeting. we have the mental health walk which is a free walk next month, june 1st at golden gate meadows. then we have going on at the public library mental health hope day. a series of recovery stories from nomey's free services. i will be presenting at that workshop so you will get to see me in a different form at the main library here in san francisco june 8, from 11:00-1:00. all events at the library are free. get to the library and check it out. it is a world of of resources. a lot
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a lot a lot. okay. you guys, that is my report. now we will have a report from the director of the mayor's office on disabilities. >> thank you, cochair wilson. i'm carla johnson. it's good to see everybody again this month. i'm going to be keeping my report fairly brief today because we have some very important agenda items and a brief presentation on housing and from the accessible parking advisory committee meeting and i want to make sure we have time for those. at the end of my report, joanna will give us a very short update on some of the different complaints and calls that we have received. i have two topics, the mayor's budget town hall meeting and the guardian. the mayor's budget town hall meeting has been going on the last two weeks. the last one is tomorrow
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from 1 is tomorrow 2 weeks. the last 1 is tomorrow from 10:00-1130 at galileo high school. 1150 san francisco street. i have attended all of the mayor's budget town hall meeting and the format has been pretty much the same at each of them. namely there are some introductory remarks by the mayor and the supervisors office and a presentation by the mayor's budget analyst and then it's turned over to public comment because the purpose of these town hall meetings is to hear from the citizens about their priorities for how to city spends it's money on the discretionary funding. there are some reoccurring themes at the town hall meetings. we heard from different hiv and
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aids non-profits and positive resources and they spoke very passionately about the need for funding especially in light of federal state cuts. the living campaign also mobilized a very vocal constituency advocating support for the b top program. this was a federal grant that was responsible for putting computers and tutors in city college neighborhood resource centers and senior centers. this is the way the technology can be a life looik -- line to connect people that don't have access. that grant experience has expired. they have put it in their budget to continue the funding but the advocates did a very good job to make sure our policy makers understood this was a priority. there was also
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advocacy for continued funding for services administrated by dos including in home services and pedestrian safety was an issue across all communities. we heard from a high school student talked about her friend killed on a crosswalk. she really made the plea that everybody needs to slowdown. i mention the town halls because last year it was my observation that the board and the mayor's and supervisor really listened to people when they spoke at these meetings and they took steps to prioritize funding for these very important programs. i urge you again to attend tomorrow's meetings if you have not attended one already. that is from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 at galileo high school. my next item is golden
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guardian. the scenario was similar to the earthquake. our council has been very active in making sure that our plan in san francisco addresses the needs of people with disabilities. this is a large exercise across many different city departments, collaboration with the red cross. what was unique this year is that we had participation by our disabilities disaster preparedness council committee members who went to a live shelter and with some of their constituents that they serve they participated and were themselves people with disabilities presenting at the shelter, giving the red cross a little trial run on what it would be like to ask the right questions to find the right resources so we can shelter
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together in the community. there was also a story that you might have seen in a newspaper about a mass disaster seating exercise and that was in tenderloin on golden gate avenue. the people who provide feeding on a daily basis like saint anthony's and meals on wheels, they all collaborated the way they would need to after a disaster by setting up a mass feeding for 6,000 people. they served hot dogs and chili and they practiced playing together. >> i know that the ddpc members will give you a much detailed report. we didn't have time to include that in the report for later this afternoon, but we will be bringing this back to you for the next meeting. that
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concludes my directors report. i would like to have joanna to tell us about some of the cases and calls that we have seen. >> good afternoon council members. my name is joanna. i will be giving you a two minute review of the last month. overall our office received close to 150 calls that represented inquiry service request, referrals and complaints. the majority of our calls were actually service request and referrals, but a large number more than usual has been request for technical assistance around legal issues. the main trends for our complaints have been three so far, the public right of way
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because as the weather gets better we get out and about more. so they notice disruption on the path of travel. services support animal discrimination issues and most importantly sro and reasonable accommodations and housing problems. so it's very timely that we will be having housing agenda an items today. finally i want to highlight one case which involves the holiday plaza elevator. it's often miss communicated or there is misinformation that they is -- elevator is maintained by bart or munis. this is the complaint that we got in our office based on the fact there was not